Sustainability science as a management science : Beyond the natural-social divide
(2021)- Abstract
- In this chapter, we argue that to understand the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialectics in sustainability science, it is useful to see sustainability science as a kind of management science, and then to highlight the hard–soft distinction in systems thinking. First, we argue that the commonly made natural–social science dichotomy is relatively unimportant and unhelpful. We then outline the differences between soft and hard systems thinking as a more relevant and helpful distinction, mainly as a difference between perspectives in systemic modeling toward models. We also illustrate that the distinction is methodologically useful to advance sustainability science by enabling us: (1) to suggest novel ways of using existing... (More)
- In this chapter, we argue that to understand the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialectics in sustainability science, it is useful to see sustainability science as a kind of management science, and then to highlight the hard–soft distinction in systems thinking. First, we argue that the commonly made natural–social science dichotomy is relatively unimportant and unhelpful. We then outline the differences between soft and hard systems thinking as a more relevant and helpful distinction, mainly as a difference between perspectives in systemic modeling toward models. We also illustrate that the distinction is methodologically useful to advance sustainability science by enabling us: (1) to suggest novel ways of using existing theoretical, experimental, and computational resources of the sciences for renewable resource management, and (2) to disentangle disciplinary disagreements in climate science. (Less)
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- author
- Nagatsu, Michiru and Thorén, Henrik LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Global epistemologies and philosophies of science
- editor
- Ludwig, David ; Koskinen, Inkeri ; Mncube, Zinhle ; Poliseli, Luana and Reyes-Galindo, Luis
- edition
- 1
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85116235808
- ISBN
- 9780367461379
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003027140
- language
- English
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- yes
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abstract = {{In this chapter, we argue that to understand the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialectics in sustainability science, it is useful to see sustainability science as a kind of management science, and then to highlight the hard–soft distinction in systems thinking. First, we argue that the commonly made natural–social science dichotomy is relatively unimportant and unhelpful. We then outline the differences between soft and hard systems thinking as a more relevant and helpful distinction, mainly as a difference between perspectives in systemic modeling toward models. We also illustrate that the distinction is methodologically useful to advance sustainability science by enabling us: (1) to suggest novel ways of using existing theoretical, experimental, and computational resources of the sciences for renewable resource management, and (2) to disentangle disciplinary disagreements in climate science.}},
author = {{Nagatsu, Michiru and Thorén, Henrik}},
booktitle = {{Global epistemologies and philosophies of science}},
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language = {{eng}},
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title = {{Sustainability science as a management science : Beyond the natural-social divide}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003027140}},
doi = {{10.4324/9781003027140}},
year = {{2021}},
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